Monthly Archives: September 2011

Romanian re-Phorm-ation?

News has emerged this week that Phorm, the online-behavioural-advertising company about whom a great deal has been written (including by me) has targeted a new country for its latest attempt to track internet users’ every move: Romania. Having been kicked … Continue reading

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Is sharing natural? Is privacy?

To someone like me, who works in the field of privacy, Facebook and similar services have always represented a challenge. Pretty much every time Mark Zuckerberg gets up on his feet to make another announcement, I find my stomach churning, … Continue reading

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Logout should mean logout! UPDATED

Hidden (or at least untrumpeted) amongst all the new features in the latest Facebook upgrade is one deeply concerning issue: when you ‘logout’ of Facebook, Facebook will continue to track you. This fact has made it onto a few blogs … Continue reading

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New website…

Just a quick post to say that I’ve set up a new website – to meet my new status as a Lecturer at the UEA, and to ‘celebrate’ the submission of my thesis… It’s at http://www.paulbernal.co.uk More to come!

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A tale of three conferences…

IT Law certainly seems to be flavour of the month. Even more particularly, it seems to be flavour of the next couple of days. Today and tomorrow there are three conferences on different aspects of the subject, all of which … Continue reading

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